Before today, this package hasn't seemed to work at all for me. HTTP submission is broken out of the box, and the e-mail address for submission is broken as well.
I tried a few other fixes (manual, patches submitted with other bugs), but this is the only fix that seemed to actually transmit something. Thilo Six, to test the cron script from the command line, use nohup: $ nohup /etc/cron.weekly/popularity-contest -- popularity-contest does not work out of the box https://launchpad.net/bugs/51149 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs